catalogue - Hay Hill Gallery

PJ CROOK
P.J.
CROOK
In the last decade PJ Crook has had exhibitions
in the United States, Canada, France, Japan,
Estonia and the UK.
Commissions have taken her to Japan and Saudi
Arabia to study the people and cultures for a
series of fifteen large canvases that she
completed in her Gloucestershire studios. She is
currently working on a large commission for
Gloucestershire College measuring 2 x 4.5
metres. Last year she also painted a whole string
quartet of instruments for the Cheltenham
International Music Festival which will be
auctioned later in the year towards the new
Creative Arts Centre at the National Star College
of which she is College Patron. Next year she
shows in New York at the ACA Galleries.
PJ Crook’s work is always concerned with
people - the human condition; often its dilemma
in the urban environment. Her crowded
newspaper compositions she sees as ‘history
paintings’ reflecting the current state of affairs
eitherlocally, nationally or internationally. She has
been working on the series since 1988, during
which time she has also observed great change
in the formats. Broadsheets that are now
tabloids;
changing
mastheads
and
the
introduction of more colour.
Bathers
Tinted gesso on
canvas and painted
wood frame,
178 x 178 cm
Nightclub
Tinted gesso on canvas and
painted wood frame,
178 x 127 cm
Oh The Joy Of Family Life
Tinted gesso on wood, 25 x 30 cm
Bride In Waiting
Oil on wood, 43 x 32 cm
The Card Player
Tinted gesso on
wood,
43 x 38 cm
Petite Nue
Oil on canvas and
painted wood
frame,
81 x 91 cm
Wednesday detail
Tinted gesso on canvas
on corrugated wood support
91.5 x 127 cm
The Dance of Time
Acrylic on canvas
and wooden frame
88 x 93 cm
Jazzamatazz
Acrylic on canvas
and wooden frame
91.5 x 127 cm
Faun
Tinted gesso on canvas
and wood
50 x 45 cm
Everyone’s a Winner
Tinted gesso on canvas
on corrugated wood support
45 x 79 cm
French Connection
Tinted gesso on canvas
and wood
57 x 57 cm
Pastourelle
Tinted gesso on canvas
and wood
56 x 76 cm
Liberty Horse
Bronze with silk cord
and feathers, edition of 8
61 x 53 x 19 cm
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Art and Soul, Gloucestershire City Museum, Gloucester
2011 ACA Galleries, New York
2010 Royal Academy of Arts Summer exhibition, London & 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 87, 88, 90, 91, 95, 2008,
2009
2010 Vaal Galerii, Tallinn
2010 Loch Galleries, Toronto & 2007
2010 Hay Hill Gallery, London
2008 Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris & 1991, 93, 95, 97, 99, 2002
2007 Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford & 1997, 99, 2004
2006 Draakoni Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum A Day at the Races & tour
2006 Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Japan
2006 City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester Paradise
2004 Catmose Gallery, Vale of Catmose College, Rutland
2003 Robert Sandelson, London & 1998
2002 City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester The Angel & the Multitude
2001 Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Japan
2001 Ad Hoc Gallery, Buddle Arts Centre, Tyne & Wear Deja Vrooom
2000 Theo Waddington Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida
1998 Nancy Poole Gallery, Toronto
1998 Barry Friedman Ltd, New York - Art1998Chicago
1997 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1996 Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum tour:
1996 Oriel Gallery, Theatr Clwyd, Mold; Musée Paul Valery, Séte; Rye Art Gallery
1996 Montpelier Sandelson, London & 1994, 95
1994 Portal Gallery, London & 1980, 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93
1994 Portal Gallery, London & 1980, 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93
1989 Lee Drexler, New York
1986 Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums The Fourth Grand Illusion
PJ Crook is Patron of the National Star College, a Director and Trustee of ACS (the Artists Collecting Society),
President of the Friends of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, a Gloucestershire Ambassador, Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts and Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Gloucestershire.
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